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According to an 18-page document that K&L Gates filed Friday with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware, Solyandra attorneys have been in contact more than two dozen times with the U.S. Attorney's Office, as well as the FBI.

The K&L Gates invoice — detailing $146,037 in fees charged by the Bay Area law firm — refers multiple times to its attorneys dealing with a grand jury. The first mention comes at an Oct. 9 session when Jeffrey Bornstein billed Solyndra $384 in part for reviewing a grand jury subpoena.

Associate Claudia Quiroz worked for more than 10 hours on Oct. 26 and Oct. 27 to review documents and prepare for a response to the grand jury subpoena.

Bornstein, a former federal prosecutor in San Francisco, also met Oct. 14 in San Jose with Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeff Nedrow to discuss "privilege issues” related to Solyndra. Nedrow was on the prosecution team that pursued former San Francisco Giants outfielder Barry Bonds.

Other items included in the K&L Gates invoice suggest the federal probe has reached R.W. Beck, an engineering company contracted by the Energy Department to review Solyndra’s business plan. On Oct. 28, Quiroz held a telephone conference with "witness' counsel regarding R.W. Beck subpoena."

K&L Gates’s attorneys also have handled issues dealing with the FBI, which conducted a surprise raid on Solyndra's Fremont headquarters and company executive offices on Sept. 8.

Less than a week later, on Sept. 14, K&L Gates attorneys met to review the FBI search warrants and to "confer with company employees regarding Federal Bureau of Investigation seizures."

Borenstein and a colleague also visited FBI’s San Francisco office on Nov. 2 “for document review and redaction.”

Law enforcement officials have said little about their work to date in the Solyndra probe. In an email Tuesday, FBI spokeswoman Julianne Sohn confirmed a joint investigation continues with the Energy Department's inspector general. "All affidavits remain sealed and we can't comment any further," she said.

Asked about the federal investigation, Bornstein replied in an email to POLITICO, "Solyndra is continuing to cooperate with the United States Attorneys Office in connection with its investigation."

The Washington Times first reported details Tuesday night of the grand jury investigation.

K&L Gates attorneys also have been doing other work for Solyndra.

San Francisco partner Mikal Condon reviewed congressional testimony on Sept. 14, which was the same day the House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee had originally planned to have Solyndra CEO Brian Harrison and CFO Bill Stover as witnesses. The two executives appeared Sept. 23, but invoked their Fifth Amendment rights and declined to answer any questions.

now we have to get the doj to panel a grand jury for "fast&furious"all congress is doing is wasting time and taxpayer money,you will never get the truth out of eric holder with these useless congressional hearings.

Wouldn't it be great if Republicans made as much effort trying to collect the $60 billion in waste, fraud, and abuse from the 435-plus, GOP-approved profiteers in Iraq and Afghanistan who also failed in their nation-building and another $6.6 billion is missing in stolen Iraqi funds as the Bush-Cheney money machine flew in literally plane loads of cash without accountability all while being protected by the GOP in Congress. No call about the need for the never-ending, unnecessary, unproven $100 billion Reagan-era to present SDI-spinoff, anti-ballistic missile systems; how about the return of the wasted $3 billion on the non-working Boeing "virtual border fence" or the billions in GOP "bridge to nowhere" pork projects.

The ranting right-wingers complain about corruption by Democrats, ha. They have no parallels to the Bush-Cheney lies, two, unfunded wars, oil greed and corruption, the kidnapping, illegal torture as a national policy, illegal global secret prisions where over 100 inmates have died; illegally farming out torture to other countries; lying to the American people, Congress, and the world via the UN complete with false PowerPoint graphics; circumventing the Constitution and the US legal system via Gitmo (where inmates cost $500,000 each to house); illegally outing a CIA agent for political payback; illegal domestic spying and warrantless wiretapping, on and on.

The Democrats have no parallel to the nationwide voter suppression efforts and documented GOP efforts at election fraud including the recent conviction in Maryland. No parallel to the Bush oil wars in Iraq by Bush I and Bush II; no parallel to the lies on the Panama invasion and our relationship with dictator Noreiga; no parallel to Reagan's Iran-Contra killing fields and lies; no corrupt Nixon cabinet and Watergate, etc.

Recall, bozos, that two-thirds of our total National Debt, which was under $800 billion through Carter, belong to just three GOP presidents--Reagan, who tripled it; GHW Bush, who added to it; and GW Bush, who more than doubled it yet again. GW Bush inherited a budget deficit and left behind a tsunami of job losses at 600,000-700,000 monthly during the last half of 2008 and into the first months of 2009 or before the ARRa took place. Spending under the Obama Administration was forced by the Wall St. rich fraud housing boom-bust that began and ended under Bush and left behind the Bush Great Recession we are living with today. (Republicans blamed it all on dishonest homeowners, particularly black homeowners.

Who cares what the suddenly "born-again deficit hawks," who went on a spending spree of military-industrial-congressional-complex greed, think. They left behind a economic disaster and two, ongoing wars combined at 18 years, projected to cost $5 trillion as the lifetimes of war bills and costly VA healthcare come in. Won't they be surprised to find that there really is a God that holds people accountable. No amount of GOP spin or burdening wealth will save them.

Hey, just a minute here; they can't do this; GOOB Rick Perry told us all - on TV and with a straight face, no less - that the' Fed's funding to Solyndra was to a "foreign country"! So,What right has the USA got to investigate a "foreign country"?

There just MUST be some mistake! Maybe our US AG should be checking this out with the Texass AG, before proceeding. I'm certain they'll convince the Fed's AG's office that "The Goob" NEVER makes that kind of mistakes!! (Although, come to think of it; it HAS been a long, long time since his W. Texas Primary school geography lessons. Oh, darn; I plum forgot: They didn't study WORLD geography or history in TX elementary schools; they only learned about the independent "Republic of Texas", aka "The Lone Star State". So how was he to know?)

SO, on second thought: Perry just MIGHT have been a little confused. All that international stuff - like all those "becka, becka-stan" countries - tend to get Repug candidates a little discombobulated "upstairs".

But it's NOT their fault; it's that damned "narrow guage" Southern States' Education system's fault: So quit the nit-picking, will you!

You know what, hallaquila, you embarrass yourself. You're talking about Bush wasting billions on self-defense and averting terror attacks, all the while Obama wastes billions - if not trillions - on crony capitalism. All his 'stimulus' money went to political buddies. It doesn't compare. You do, however, support my theory that most Democrats know how to repeat what the liberal media tells you to say about both the GOP and the Dems. News flash: they're biased! It never ceases to amaze me how some Democrats will just shout the same talking points over and over without looking at facts, and especially without looking at both sides of an argument. There is plenty of flip-flopping and corruption with Democrats too. Partisanship causes blindness on both sides. You've got to read both sides anymore to get a good idea of what's really going on, because both sides leave stuff out. The liberal media does count on its followers being mind-numbed enough to not think for themselves, however.... It is your duty to be a well-informed voter, not a brainwashed and partisan voter. I'll go even further: to really understand the conservative movement, you've got to listen to (or read) Rush Limbaugh for at least a couple weeks. The 'conservative' media isn't always.

Contrary to the understanding of those 'standing with the 99%,' Washington has no intention of fixing any problems within Wall Street - they've been in bed with them (on both sides) for generations, and have rigged things in the personal favor of their insider trading and political donors in the forms of tax exemption and government money. We absolutely need to look for politicians - on both sides- who recognize the culture of corruption in Washington bringing us headlong into financial crisis, and who have the character to withstand Washington's corruption and change things for the citizens of the country. We shouldn't be distracted by the partisan bickering in Washington and be partisan ourselves, that will hardly help the problem.

You know what, hallaquila, you embarrass yourself. You're talking about Bush wasting billions on self-defense and averting terror attacks, all the while Obama wastes billions - if not trillions - on crony capitalism. All his 'stimulus' money went to political buddies. It doesn't compare.

Overcharging for showers that electrocute our soldiers to death is "averting terrorist attacks?" Halliburton wasn't a "political buddy" to Bush/Cheney?